Horace Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury

Sir Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635) (also Horatio Vere or Horatio de Vere) was an English military leader during the Eighty Years’ War and the Thirty Years’ War. This portrait, with its remarkable inset battle scene, was painted during Vere’s time in the Low Countries. It incorporates his motto ‘VERO NIHIL VERIUS’: ‘nothing is more true than the truth’.